SAN MATEO, Calif.—For three months this summer and fall, in an open-plan office here stocked with Red Bull and ramen noodles, Brian Gamido and a couple dozen other true believers toiled at what he conceded sounds like “a pipe dream”—building viable businesses based on bitcoin. But thi...

More than 5,000 people across the globe recently logged on for the webcast of a Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) public meeting—not a significant number by Internet cat-video standards, but by far the largest online audience that one of our meetings had ever attracted. View...

Singapore Exchange Ltd. said Thursday that it was still investigating the cause of a power failure that caused the simultaneous interruption of both its securities and derivatives markets for more than two hours. The exchange operator said a momentary power fluctuation on Wednesday ha...

SINGAPORE—Improvement in global demand should support Singapore’s recovery, but an uneven pace of growth among its trading partners will lead to a performance gap in different segments of the economy, the country’s central bank said Tuesday. In its biannual macroeconomic review, the M...

Bitcoin wallet and data analytics provider Blockchain raised a little over $30 million from venture capital investors, the biggest single funding round yet for a digital-currency firm and a sign that Silicon Valley remains excited about bitcoin’s prospects even as its price has fallen...

Air pollution in Singapore reached its most hazardous level this year on Tuesday. Zuma Press SINGAPORE—Air pollution in Singapore reached its most hazardous level this year on Tuesday as haze caused by fires in Indonesia shrouded the island state. The hazy conditions—an annual irritan...

A commissioner at the Commodity Futures Trading Commission said Monday that the agency was authorized to intervene with enforcement actions against price manipulation in bitcoin markets. “It has not been tested, but I do believe we have the authority because if you think of any reason...

In his new chapter at Vuitton, Ghesquière is trying to find a balance between the past and the future. But it’s not as simple as believing in the present. In a typewriter-font letter to the guests of his first Vuitton fashion show , in March, Ghesquière referred to “the desire for tim...